Stirlingshire

Stirling
Castle

Stirlingshire, also known as the County of Stirling, was one of the
34 traditional counties into which Scotland was
divided for administrative purposes. It extended diagonally across the centre
of Scotland from the south bank of the River Forth east of
Grangemouth to the east
bank of Loch Lomond north of
Balmaha.

A tidying up of the map of counties which reduced their number to 33
in 1890 transferred ownership of Stirlingshire's exclaves to
Clackmannanshire and
Perthshire. Stirlingshire remained a county in
its own right until reorganisation in 1975 swept all the counties away in
favour of 12 regions.

Regions and districts disappeared from the scene in a major
reorganisation in 1996, being replaced by 32 unitary council areas. What had
started out as the traditional county of Stirlingshire mostly now forms the
unitary council area of Stirling, though parts have
also ended up in Falkirk,East Dunbartonshire and
North Lanarkshire.